Concrete floor insert

• US 6,088,972 A
• Filed: 10/15/1998
• Issued: 07/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Johanneck, Richard G.
• Original Assignee: Johanneck, Richard G.
• Inventors: Johanneck, Richard G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Safavi, Michael
• Application Number:
  US09/172,880
• Time in Patent Office: 642 Days
• Field of Search: 52/100, 52/220.8, 249/39, 249/89, 285/3, 285/4, 285/56, 285/64, 454/270, 454/271, 454/243
• US Class Current: 52/100
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 15/061 Non-reusable forms positioning means without forming function E04G21/185; electric distribution boxes H02G3/08

Abstract

A concrete floor insert includes a peripheral side wall and a breakaway mount. The peripheral side wall has an inner surface which is disposed between a top end and a bottom end. The breakaway mount is adapted to fasten to a floor form and coupled to the inner surface of the peripheral side wall through a weakened portion such that when the floor form is removed from the hardened floor, the breakaway mount separates from the inner surface at the weakened portion.

Claims

1. A floor insert for a poured concrete floor which insert remains in place after concrete is poured comprising:

a peripheral sidewall having an inner surface disposed between a top end and a bottom end and an outer surface, the side wall defining an interior opening; and

a breakaway mount adapted to fasten to a floor form, and coupled to the inner surface of the peripheral sidewall through a weakened portion, and protecting from the inner surface inwardly into the interior opening, the side wall being free of outwardly extending wall portions at the bottom end.

2. The floor insert of claim 1 and further comprising an upstanding rim disposed about the top end of the peripheral sidewall and coupled thereto.

3. The floor insert of claim 2 wherein the rim is formed integral with the peripheral sidewall.

4. The floor insert of claim 1 wherein the breakaway mount is formed integral with the peripheral sidewall.

5. The floor insert of claim 1, wherein the floor insert is constructed from acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer.

6. The floor insert of claim 1, wherein the breakaway mount is coupled to the inner surface proximate the bottom end and has a bottom surface defining a plane including a bottom edge of the peripheral wall.

7. The floor insert of claim 1, wherein the floor insert has a circular shape.

8. The floor insert of claim 1, wherein the floor insert comprises:

an exterior insert ring having a rim at the top end offset from the inner surface;

a second floor insert having a peripheral sidewall having an inner surface disposed between a top end and a bottom end, the peripheral sidewall of the second floor insert slidably fitting within the rim.

9. The floor insert of claim 8 wherein the inner surface of the extension insert ring and the inner surface of the second insert are the same cross sectional size and shape.

10. A concrete floor insert comprising:

a first peripheral side wall having a first top end, a first bottom end, a first outer surface, and a first inner surface and defining an interior passage;

a second peripheral side wall having a second top end, a second bottom end, a second outer surface, and a second inner surface, the outer surface of the second peripheral side wall coupled to the inner surface of the first peripheral side wall proximate the first bottom end and the second top end;

a plurality of breakaway mounts extending from the second inner surface proximate the second bottom end and extending into the interior passage, the peripheral side wall being free of outwardly projections at the bottom end.

11. The concrete floor insert of claim 10 wherein the plurality of breakaway mounts comprises four breakaway mounts spaced peripherally equidistant from one another, the peripheral side wall outer surface being parallel to a central axis of the interior opening continuously to a bottom plane defining the bottom end, the break-away mounts having bottom surfaces on the bottom plane.

12. The concrete floor insert of claim 10 wherein the first and second peripheral side walls are formed integral with one another.

13. The concrete floor insert of claim 10 wherein the first peripheral side wall, second peripheral side wall, and breakaway mounts are formed from acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer.

14. The concrete floor insert of claim 10 and further comprising a laterally extending side lock rim disposed about and coupled to one of the first and second outer surfaces.

15. The concrete floor insert of claim 10 and further comprising a laterally extending flange portion disposed about and coupled to the first top end.

16. The concrete floor insert of claim 15 and further comprising a side lock rim disposed about and coupled to one of the flange portion, first outer surface, and second outer surface.

17. The concrete floor insert of claim 10 wherein the floor insert has a circular shape.

18. A concrete floor hole forming kit comprising:

a concrete floor insert including;

a peripheral side wall including an inner surface disposed between a top end and a bottom end and defining an interior passageway having a central axis, the outer surface of the peripheral wall extending parallel to the central axis adjacent the bottom end; and

a breakaway mount adapted to fasten to a floor form, and coupled to the inner surface of the peripheral side wall through a weakened portion and projecting inwardly from the inner surface, the mount and the peripheral side wall terminating along a bottom plane, and the peripheral side wall being free of projections extending outwardly therefrom at the bottom end;

an extension member having a top end, and a bottom end adapted to substantially sealably engage the top end of the peripheral side wall; and

a cover adapted to engage the top end of the extension member to thereby cover the extension member.